March 6, 2020
Donald Trump Could Use These 5 Weapons in a War Against Iran
Iran’s day of reckoning may be near.
by Zachary Keck
Key point: Iran has sought to develop asymmetric military capabilities to offset America’s insurmountable conventional superiority.
The Islamic State of Iran was born in enmity toward the United States. Led by the fiery cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, revolutionary leaders animated crows in Iran by lambasting “Great Satan†for any number of crimes, both real and imagined.
It didn’t take long for this animosity to turn kinetic. As the Iran-Iraq War intensified throughout 1984, the two combatants began targeting each other’s oil shipments as a way to gain military advantage. According to Global Security, “Seventy-one merchant ships were attacked in 1984 alone, compared with forty-eight in the first three years of the [Iran-Iraq] war.â€
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/donald-trump-could-use-these-5-weapons-war-against-iran-129737
